'Citizens are free to make choices without a man telling them what he thinks God wants'

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Published 6:00 pm, Wednesday, November 12, 2014

To the editor:

Permit me to offer a humble rebuttal to Mauro Sandoval’s letter of November 3 in which he encourages me to vote on God’s side.

Mr. Sandoval alleges that our country was founded on the principal of “the dignity of life.”

The millions of African slaves and Native Americans who suffered and perished at the hands of greedy land grabbers would disagree on that point.

If I vote pro-choice, I am not on God’s side? Exactly which God is he referring to?

Is this the same God who murdered every living thing on earth because of the wickedness of some?

(As in Genesis.) Or is it the same loving God who killed every first born son in Egypt because Pharaoh would not capitulate to Moses.

Our form of democracy is the opposite of a theocracy, where people who tell you they are God’s representatives control your lives.

Your pithy catch phrases sound clever, but God’s laws are the antithesis of a democracy, where citizens are free to make their own reasoned choices without a Holy man telling you what he thinks God wants you to do.

I was totally unaware that God had been on vacation for the past six years.

According to the all of the pious politicians, he was right there stumping alongside of them while they asked for your vote because they were God’s chosen candidate.

I don’t know if the current bunch of politicians are obeying God’s laws, but it is apparent that they have not been upholding the Constitution.

I certainly did not realize that God, as well as his radical son, were Republicans.

The only Party of God that was making the rounds in the Middle East recently was that lovely moderate group Hezbollah and you better vote their way, or else.